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en Colegio Tarbut acquires its own building, Semanario Israelita, Volume 22, No. 1932 [1961] https://diaspora.jewish-history-online.net/source/gjd:source-14 N.N. Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies Online Ressource The source is a short newspaper article titled “Colegio Tarbut erwirbt eigenes Gebäude” (“Colegio Tarbut Acquires Its Own Building”), published in 1961 in Jüdische Wochenschau / La Semana Israelita, the main German-language periodical for the Jewish immigrant community in Argentina. Illustrated with a photograph of the new building, the article announces that Colegio Tarbut (Tarbut School, hereafter referred to as Tarbut), a recently founded integrative Jewish school in the northern zone of Buenos Aires, had acquired its own building in Olivos, near the Borges train station. It reports that more than 100 students were already enrolled and outlines the school’s curriculum, which combined official Argentine subjects with intensive instruction in Hebrew and English, along with music, ceramics, and rhythmic gymnastics. It also mentions that starting the next academic year, the school would expand to include students from kindergarten through fourth grade. Enrollments were to be completed at the school’s previous location on Emilio Mitre 143 in Martínez. Tarbut had been founded earlier that year by a group of mostly German-speaking Jewish parents in Martínez neighborhood. The school’s establishment was promoted through newspaper ads and community networks. An example of this can be seen in the source from the Jüdische Wochenschau/La Semana Israelita, which featured promotional announcements for the school. When the periodical first appeared in 1940, it quickly became the main forum for the German-speaking Jewish community in Buenos Aires. For refugees who still struggled with Spanish, it provided news, cultural commentary, community-building, and a vital link to Europe, while helping readers adjust to life in Argentina. Tarbut’s Board of Directors used this platform strategically to reach families in the émigré community, presenting the school as a modern alternative within the Jewish educational landscape. 2026-01-06